Bahia Madalena
Today we headed up to the nursery for whales, Bahia Magdalena. As soon as we got into this bay the whales were out in droves. Dolphins were riding our bow waves and wales were breaching the water at many times, this is like a play ground for them. I’m pretty spoiled by seeing the things that I see now, it’s kind of cool to literally look out the window or over the water at pretty much any given time and see either wales, dolphins, or sea lions at any time. We also passed through the Hull Canal as well, this is the northern section of Madelena Bay that is very narrow and completely unique. Very interesting to see sand dune formations and interesting plant life growing along the edge of all kinds of lagoons and narrow pathways.
As far as work goes, my schedule is coming together a bit now for me. I get into the Galley at 5:30 and start the dough for the bread. Once that is mixed up I put it into containers and let it rise. After that I start on breakfast, a simple deal really. Three types of scrambled eggs, bacon, and french toast, crepes or pancakes. From there I start on the dessert for dinner. At about 10 or so I get going on prep for both the staff lunch and the guest lunch, with the staff lunch being whatever I can throw together for the most part, and the guest lunch being a fairly complicated meal either served buffet or family style.I will also form the bread into loaves and get them ready for baking later in the. After putting out both lunches as noon and 12:30 respectively, then dinner prep begins. Dinner prep is similar to the lunch prep, being that there is both a staff meal, and a guest meal. The bread is generally baked off at this time as welll. Generally the food is outstanding and the guest meal is a sit down affair. Guest dinner is served at 7:30 proceeded by the dessert that I made earlier in the day and then clean up the kitchen at around 9:00 pm or so. The only saving grace is that of the two cooks, one gets a break in the morning and one in the afternoon for a couple of hours, so that one can take a ciesta or whatever.
I’m starting to feel the lack of excersize now. I have decided to come up with a routine (which is normal for me) that I can do every day. Basically stretches, push ups, sit ups, pull ups and jumping jacks, just to keep my heart rate going for at least 5 minutes with a warm up and cool down period on either end. It’s not much but it’s all that I’ve got. I hope that once I get a little more settled I will be able to get few trips to the beach in with the guests (which is encouraged by Lindblad) and that will give me a chance to hike, and I definitely am needing that now.
